Overview

At Medium, words still matter. We are building a place to foster reading and writing on the internet—a place where today’s smartest writers, thinkers authorities, experts, and storytellers can share big, interesting ideas; a place where ideas are judged on the value they provide to readers, not the fleeting attention they can attract for advertisers.

The Platforms team

The Platforms team is tasked with enabling our product engineers to quickly build a quality user experience. We do that by giving those teams tools and frameworks to build great user experiences.

Much of the Platforms team’s recent work has been around shepherding new technologies into Medium’s stack: We have a web client written in modern React (with hooks, if you’re curious) and TypeScript. We have enjoyed adopting GraphQL to add clarity to our API, manage changing client needs, and take advantage of third party tooling like Apollo Client. We have a modern design system & styling framework using CSS-in-JS & Storybook. And we are growing our fleet of Go services speaking gRPC, deployed on Kubernetes, and released with our own K8s operator.

That’s where you come in

We’re looking for staff- or principal-leveled engineers who like to:

Write software — That might be writing a new framework, making a design system component accessible, or writing a Slack integration that saves engineers time.

Support fellow engineers — We listen to product engineering teams and collaborate with them. After all, they’re our users, and they’re the ones who ultimately help Medium’s users read and write things that matter. When we empathetically understand what they need, it makes us better at our job.

Advocate for & design solutions — We provide high-level technical design, strategy roadmap development, and technical architecture related to our web client.

Follow & engage with the community — We want to assure that our architectures are consistent with industry including scalability, availability, maintainability, and flexibility.

Understand technical debt — There are also some older and less glamorous technologies at Medium, too. Part of your responsibility will be enabling engineers to account for technical debt and make progress against it — all while building new systems and user features.

Who You are?

  • You have a deep understanding of microservice architecturesand how they to make them successful.
  • You have 10+ years of experience writing software.
  • You want to learn from and teach your peers.
  • You work autonomously, are energized by missions and goals more than a specific list of tasks.

Nice to have, but not required:

  • You are fluent in Golang and gRPC.
  • You are comfortable in TypeScript.
  • You have 10+ years of experience.
  • You have shipped systems on Kubernetes.
  • You are familiar with modern observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, Lightstep)
  • You have experience on an infrastructural or platform team.

What makes Medium special

At Medium, we foster an inclusive, supportive, fun yet challenging team environment. We value having a team that is made up of a diverse set of backgrounds and respect the healthy expression of diverse opinions. We embrace experimentation and the examination of all kinds of ideas through reasoning and testing. Come join us as we continue to change the world of digital media.

Medium is an equal opportunity employer. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.